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Charlie

[chahr-lee]

noun

  1. a word used in communications to represent the letter C.

  2. Military Slang.Also Charley Victor Charlie.

  3. a male given name, form of Charles.

  4. a female given name.



charlie

1

/ ˈʃɑːɪ /

noun

  1. informala silly person; fool

  2. old-fashioneda girl or woman

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Charlie

2

/ ˈʃɑːɪ /

noun

  1. communications a code word for the letter c

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Charlie

3

/ ˈʃɑːɪ /

noun

  1. slangmilitary a member of the Vietcong or the Vietcong collectively

    Charlie hit us with rockets

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Charlie

4

/ ˈʃɑːɪ /

noun

  1. slangcocaine

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of charlie1

C20: for sense 1: shortened from Charlie Hunt, rhyming slang for cunt ; sense 2 is shortened from Charlie Wheeler, rhyming slang for sheila

Origin of charlie2

shortened from Victor Charlie, communications code for VC, abbreviation of Vietcong
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Charlie Kirk bizarrely resurrected the DEI boogeyman to suggest that a fire department nearly two hours away is responsible for the delayed response to Friday’s floods.

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By the mid-2010s, L.A. officials, including Police Chief Charlie Beck and Mayor Eric Garcetti, were declaring they could not “arrest their way out of homelessness,” but ticketing and arrests continued.

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He became deputy race director under the late Charlie Whiting, before moving to Ferrari in 2018, where he eventually became deputy team principal under Mattia Binotto.

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On Sunday, fans cheered when Austin Shepard and Charlie Georgiou, who were booted from the island, made an appearance at the event.

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The large shed up an ever-thinning track is where artist Charlie Whinney creates his abstract and beautiful sculptures.

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